Word: homegrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ginger Rogers has glamor, acting ability and a pair of lyric legs. But her outstanding quality as a movie star is a frank and homegrown air which both U. S. and foreign audiences recognize as essentially American. In spite of her two marriages (moderate for Hollywood) she represents the American Girl, 1939 model-alert, friendly, energetic, elusive. Less eccentric than Carole Lombard, less worldly-wise than Myrna Loy, less impudent than Joan Blondell, she has a careless self-sufficiency which they lack. As a dancer, Ginger Rogers has been immensely improved by her association with Astaire, who works...
Last week U. S. citizens were again reminded that not all grandiose nuts & nostrums are homegrown. Some ten years ago an engaging young Russian who had taken the name Anatole de la Marti appeared in Manhattan, attempted to interest the late Ivy Lee in publicizing certain large schemes for economic betterment which he had conceived. Meeting no success, M. de la Marti returned to Europe, was forgotten...
...Nest of Simple Folk's 398 sensitive, homegrown pages Author O'Faolain spreads with slow care the history of three generations of an Irish family, from 1854 to 1916. Since Ireland is going downhill, so does his family, but theirs is not a political story. Judith Foxe was what passed for a gentleman's daughter in those parts. When she married one of her father's tenants her father never spoke to her again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better...
...that its territory is the rightful property of China, Mr. Fuller, while careful not to mention Japan by name, denounced the regime behind puppet Regent Henry Pu Yi for increasing the opium output of Manchukuo by every means and making it a centre for illicit dealing.in every form of homegrown and smuggled opium. Pamphlets dropped from airplanes, charged Mr. Fuller, instruct Manchukuo farmers in the best ways of growing opium. Stamped on the new money of Manchukuo, he sarcastically observed, is "a beautiful poppy in full bloom!"-an opium poppy. Of the Manchukuo Opium Monopoly, financed by a Japanese loan...
Chancellor Dollfuss. Christian Socialist (Catholic) leader, needed all the backing he could get. Austrian Nazis were growing stronger each day. Until last week he had the official support of Austria's homegrown Fascists, the Heimwehr. Nearly half the Heimwehr split away last week. published an announcement ''acknowledging without condition or restriction Adolf Hitler as leader of the German nation...